Hi Jim, Michael, and others,
  I do appreciate your quick replies. Michael's message made my colleagues at FIU very excited before Jim pointed out about statics vs. statistics. TBL is very fresh to me, but I was very impressed by the Larry's lecture and eager to experiment it. 

Jiuhua

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Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 6:45 PM
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Subject: Re: Statics course

Statics not statistics

Jim Sibley

Sorry for brief message -sent from my iPad

On 2010-08-18, at 3:28 PM, "Sweet, Michael S" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Jiuhua,
>
> Dan Robinson here at UT taught Statistics using TBL a few years ago.
>
> In my view, he figured out a great sequence of:
>
> 1)  Readiness Assurance based on concept recognition
> 2)  Introducing actual data/calculations in lecture
> 3)  Giving teams experience doing data calculation in "Team Games"
> 4)  Finishing each unit with an individual-then-team exam that required calculation.
>
> It was really elegant.
>
> I have taken the liberty of attaching his syllabus and copying him on this.
>
> -M
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Team-Based Learning [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jiuhua Chen [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 3:01 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Statics course
>
> Has anyone taught TBL Statics course?  I have 50 students in the class, and
> would like to get advice on setting up TBL.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jiuhua Chen
>
> Florida Internatonal University
> <EDP 371 syllabus Spring 06.doc>